VOL. XXIII NO. 25 FRIDAY , SEPTEMBER 29, 1989 THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY’S Report stresses need for greater faculty input at ND By GREG LUCAS way,” said Gad-el-Hak, adding that the Assistant News Editor faculty is not “trying to take the authority to make decisions away from “Significant expansion of the collec­ anybody.” tive faculty role in decision making at “The result so far (of interaction with B l l l B M j l Notre Dame is both critical and neces­ the administration) has been denial of sary, if Notre Dame is to become the the presence of a problem. If you don’t major university it proposes to be," is admit there is a problem, you don’t seek the charge made by the Faculty Senate a solution,” Gad-el-Hak said. Ad-hoc Committee on University “I think the faculty plays a very Governance in a preliminary report sent significant role,” said Timothy to all faculty members. O’Meara, University provost and The preliminary report does not pur­ professor of mathematics, in response port to represent conclusions or major­ to the committee’s report. “I think that • J K v ity opinion among the faculty, but aims all of the layers (in the administrative to “generate discussion, deliberation, decision-making hierarchy) work pretty 9 '1 1 and participation in both the harmoniously together,” he said. Commmittee’s and the Senate’s subse­ O’Meara said that this does not mean quent activities.” that problems do not exist or that mod­ According to Mohammed Gad-el-Hak, ifications are not called for, but rather chair of the Ad-hoc Committee and pro­ that the “mechanisms (for faculty in­ fessor of aerospace and mechanical put) are in place.” engineering, the report is primarily de­ O’Meara agreed with the report’s signed to rally attention for a compre­ claim that the nature of Notre Dame’s hensive faculty survey which will at­ faculty has changed in the past several tempt to determine the sentiments of decades and said that it may “very well the faculty as a whole regarding both be appropriate to reconsider the way it’s perceived and ideal role in we (the University) do business.” University governance. The report, which refers at one point Gad-el-IIak said that the survey will to the Faculty Senate as a “neutered IF be sent out in a matter of weeks. debating club,” says that a representa­ “Faculty involvement in the University tion problem exists in two dimensions. does entail institutionalization of First, the faculty is inadequately structures needed to insure adequate, represented in the determination of its comprehensive, representative, and own corporate and economic interests. genuine faculty participation in admin­ The report cites the administration’s istrative deliberations and decisions recent restructuring of faculty health which affect the faculty’s professional benefits as a telling symptom of the dis­ interests and the University’s funda­ ease. mental academic mission, ” according to According to the report, “A senate the report. survey concerning the question (of ■ The Observer/E.G. Bailey “The faculty should have a definite health benefits) was ignored by the A perfect line-up role and the administration should con­ sult with the faculty in a predictable see FACULTY / page 4 The Hesburgh Library and the Peace Memorial as the sun sets over Notre Dame. Democrats and Republicans pleased about summit plans Associated Press both Republicans, said the Democratic Gov. Mario Cuomo. it set the right tone,” said accountability, some “ education establishment” F lorida Gov. Bob M artinez Deukmejian. redirecting of funds, to meet CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — might fight to keep the status said the summit marked a He predicted there would be the primary objectives.” Democratic and Republican quo and resist many of the radical change in how no difficulty in drafting Even with cooperation from governors alike hailed plans changes discussed at the two- educational problems are concrete national education educators, he predicted it mapped out Thursday at the day summit between President viewed. goals by the February meeting would take 10 years to achieve education summit to cut federal Bush and the nation’s “It’s a change from of the National Governors’ the.reform aims outlined at the red tape and rejuvenate governors. measuring education by now Association. summit. America’s schools, but a few Bush’s address Thursday, in much we spend to what we’re “The difficulty,” he said, “ is “ They were saying, Look, Mr. grumbled that the gathering which he promised to ask getting fo r how much w e’ve that many people in the President, if this is so largely ducked the issue of Congress to “ loosen the grip of invested,” said Martinez, a education community resist important, if education is such federal money. federal restrictions,” was Republican. change. They like the status a national policy, at least don’t Several, including California praised as “ one of the best “ Everyone felt that the quo. The difficulty is going to reduce what the federal Gov. George Deukmejian and speeches I’ve ever heard him president’s message was well- be that there is going to have to New Jersey Gov. Thomas Kean, deliver” by New York crafted and well-delivered and be some restructuring, some see SUMMIT / page 4 ‘Last Temptation of Christ’ Marcos dies of cardiac arrest in Honolulu Associated Press Aquino took office as a result at Snite amid controversy of the popular revolt that drove HONOLULU — Ferdinand Marcos into exile, and her gov­ the department, Mandell By SARA MARLEY Marcos succumbed to cardiac ernment has survived six armed News Editor said. arrest Thursday, but even in attempts to overthrow it. She According to Phil Johnson, death he remained an unwanted said she refused again after his Film sponsors expect no assistant director of Notre exile, his remains barred from death to allow his burial in the problems at the showings of Dame Security, a m onitor is U.S. air lanes, his political le­ Philippines for the sake of “ the “The Last Temptation of always on duty during films gacy still stirring passions in tranquillity of the state and the Christ” in the Snite Museum at the Snite because Security his Philippine homeland. order of society.” of Art tonight and Saturday is responsible for the build­ Marcos, who ruled the Philip­ Philippine opposition leaders despite the controversy sur­ ing and its contents. pines for more than 20 years urged her to reconsider. rounding the film. “If problems occur, we will before being ousted in February “ It is just so wrong. It is his staff accordingly,” Johnson 1986, died at 12:40 a.m. b irthright. He is a Filipino, the “I ’ve been told by the head said. Thursday at St. Francis Medical greatest Filipino,” said Joe of security at the Snite that “We are not expecting any­ AP Photo Center. He was 72. Lazo, president J>f the Honolulu thing to go wrong, but we Ferdinand Marcos there will be increased pre­ Doctors said kidney and lung group Friends of Marcos. are expecting a large cautions,” said Theodore failure and a widespread infec­ U.S. crim inal charges he plun­ Later Thursday, the Federal crowd,” said Mandell. Mandell, assistant profes­ tion contributed to the cardiac dered the Philippine treasury. Aviation Administration in sional specialist in the de­ With the possibility of arrest listed as the cause of While Marcos spent nearly 10 Washington prohibited any air­ demonstrators outside the partment of communica­ death. months in the hospital, his craft from flying Marcos’ re­ tions and theater. Snite, officials want to avoid The canny, combative politi­ family begged Philippine Presi­ mains out of the United States confrontation between them Communications and the­ cian, who governed at times as dent Corazon Aquino to let him for the Philippines, saying it ater is sponsoring the film in a democrat, at times as a dicta­ come home to die, but she re­ conjunction with courses in see FILM / page 6 tor, died without facing trial on fused. see MARCOS / page 6 page 2 The Observer Friday, September 29, 1989 WORLD BRIEFS Campus safety demands a The conservative chief of the Ukrainian Communist Party lost his position as boss of the Soviet Union’s strongest political machine Thursday to a progressive protege of President Mikhail Gorbachev. Gorbachev sharply criticized the dictatorial realistic attitude style of the ousted official, Vladimir Shcherbitsky, who ran the Ukraine and its 50 million people with an iron hand for 17 I went down in the elevator to the basement of years.The new Ukrainian party boss is Vladimir Ivashko, who was LaFortune. It was about 2:15 a.m. There wasn’t Like many women Shcherbitsky’s second-in-command. another soul in sight. I was working late be­ on this campus, I cause it was my night as news editor, and I was have always clung exhausted. I could think of nothing else but NATIONAL BRIEFS slipping into my warm, safe bed. to the idea that it 1 stepped out of the elevator and walked down can't happen to me.’ the dark corridor, past the closed computer lab The Senate, caught up in an agonizing debate about the (it had not begun to operate 24 hours), up the future of President Bush’s Star Wars program, reversed field steps and through the double doors. Thursday and restored $600 million to the missile-defense shield. Christine Walsh Only two days earlier, the Senate had overwhelmingly agreed to a Then it happened... upon opening the second of the double doors, I heard an ear-splitting Assistant News Editor $900 million reduction in Bush’s request for the space-based de­ scream, seemingly right next to me.